The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-02-02
CONGRESSIONAL.
Work of the Senate and the House
of Representatives.

two were: Messrs Blair Bow en-, Cheney.
COnger. Cullom, Doph, Farwell, Hoar, Mander-
Mitchell Pa, Mitchell lOregonl, Palmer.
Platt, sherman, Teller, Wilson (IowaD-l6.
Parishes srs Chace and Hanson, Dawes and
Maxey. German and Frye. Stanford and Cam
den, Miller and henna, Butler and Cameron,
and Jones ARK and Harrison Mr.. Plumb was
absent when the vote was taken, but niterward
said he would havs voted aye The Senate APP
propria'ed for public buildings s65J,0JO at Min
neapolis s2UO.OOO at Chattanooga, 100000 ut
Charleston, Slj0,UOO ut Los Angeles, and $4,000
at Santa he. The conference report on the army
appropriation bill was agreed 10. An amend
ment to the bill TO create Department
Of Agriculture was introduced by sena-
tor Morgan, which provides for the
transfer of the signal service 70 civil
authority. Senator Beck introduced n bill
to amend the oleomargarne law. The Presi-
dent sent 10 the Senate the following nomina-
tons William Reed Lewis, of Pennsylvania. to
be Consul at Tangier; Thomas b. Connery, OF
New York, 10 be Secretary OF the Legation TO
Mexico; Aaron A. Nedder to he Postmaster at
Whitehall ILL.,, and John Banta 10 be Postmas-
ter mt Muncie, Ind. The House decided the con-
test d Rhode Island election case OF Page vs.
Pierce by adopting the minority report which
confirms the right of Pierce TO the seat in the
House.
A RESOLUTION offered by Mr.. Hoar, instruct
ing the Committee on Privileges and Elections
TO investigate the allegations made by three
residents Of Washington County Texas, as TO
their being driven from their homes, compelled
to abandon their property, and deprived of the
right of suffrage in that county, came'up in the
Senate jan 26, and gave rise TO a warm debate.
Mr. Coke protested that the proposed in
vestgation into n subec outside the ju-
rsdiction of Congress. The State OF Texas
had State autonomy. Her constitution and laws
were in full force and operation. She could re-
dress all grievances, personal or otherwise, oc-
curing vi hin her riders. The subject was
one peculiarly within the jurisdiction of the
State. and the resolution was an Intern eddling
with something BELONGING VIII lily TO the State
and outside of the jurisdiction Of the General
Government. He gave u history OF the case: TO
b en- shot by colored man at the polls near
BRENNAN, Texas that three colored men had
been arrested and placed in jail charged with
that crime that mob had taken them out OF
Jail and hanged them. and that the three petit
TONERS, Hackworth, Moore, and Schultze, who
had been prominent in influencing and delud-
ing the negro population there, had supposed
their lives to be in danger and had fled the
country. He had received telegram from ID.
G. Giddings, of BRENNAN, formerly Represen-
tative in Congress from Texas, saying that the
three petitioners were Of the worst type
Of scalawags; that they had been main
ly instrumental in stirring up strife
between the races, and were charged with in
vestigating the murder referred to that they
were not driven from their homes nor were
their lives threatened, but that their own
guilty consciences had caused them TO leave
the country for the countrys good. Mr.. Hoar
said the three petitioners represented them
selves to be men OF property and ilt
ing in peaceful, lawful. and honorable ways !;
and that they had been driven out from
their homes on American soil. Mr.. Hoar,
referring 10 the speeches on the fisheries bill,
asked whether the right Of an American etiZen
was less sacred in the eye OF the American Con-
gress when it happened to be violated on Amer
lean soil. Mr.. Eustis Ia member OF the COM
mittee opposed the resolution as q waving OF
the bloody shirt little in advance Of
the usual season. Mr.. Evarts IA mem
Der of the committed sustained the
resolution and argued that now, when
there was an opportunity to prove,
under. the authority Of the Senate,
hot W0a "xUQN IA
shirt" it should do so. The resolution was
adopted--3l to Is. BY a vote of IL TO II the SEN
ate rejected the nomination OF j. c. Matthews,
a colored Democrat from Albany, as recorder
of deeds for the District of Columbia.
THE agricultural experiment station bill pass
ed the Senate, Jan. 81 IL directs the estab
lishment in connection with the agricultural
colleges OF department to be known and
designated an Agricultural Experiment
Station" Where there are two such colleges
in one State the amount appropriated to
each State and Territory for this pur-
pose $4,000 year Is 10 be equally
divided between them unless the State
Legislature shall otherwise direct. The OBJ
ject and duty of such experiment stations is !:
To conduct original researches or TO verify ex-
perrin ents on the physiology of plants and ami
mails; the diseases to which they are severally
subject and the remedies therefor; and chemi-
cal composition of useful plants /; the compare
tive advantages of rotative cropping the capac-
ity of new plants or trees for acclimation the
analysis Of soils and water the chemical COM
position of manures; the adaptation and value
of grasses and forage plants; the composition
and digestibility of the different kinds of
food for domestic animals; the scientific and
economic questions involved in the production
of butter and cheese, and such other researches
or experiments bearing directly on the agri-
cultural industry of the United States as may
be deemed advisable The Senate also passed
the House bill for the relief of dependent
parents and of honorably discharged soldiers
and sailors now disabled. A resolution was
adopted directing an investigation by the Engi-
neer Bureau of the alleged distractions to COM
merce in the Columbia River by salmon traps
and wheels. Senator ingalls, introduced
bill to amend the Revised Stat
utes so as to provide that no person
shall be engaged in or carry on the business of
rectiher wholesale or retail liquor dealer whole
sale retail dealer III malt liquors, or dstiller,
nor shall the Collector of Internal Revenue re-
ceive from any such person any money in pay
ment OF special taxes or for revenue stamps,
until the dealer has first made n sworn state
ment that he has fully complied with all the
laws concerning his business of the district in
which the business is TO be conducted. reso-
ton, previously offered by Mr.. Hoar in executive
session, declaring that after the Senate has
refused it's advice and consent TO the appoint
ment OF any person to Office, IL is contrary TO
the spirit and intent of the Constitution to des-
ignate the same person 70 the same office imme-
diately thereafter, was taken up by the Senate
and referred TO the Committee on Privileges
and Elections. The House passed the river and
harbor bill-yeas, 154 nays, 04-in the exact
form in which it was reported from the Com
mittee Rivers and Harbors The House
Judiciary Committee reported adversely Joint
resolution providing for the election of United
States Senators by the people OF the States, and
it was placed upon the calendar.
Mr.. EDMUNDs, in presenting TO the Senate,
on the 2Sth ult memorial from manufacture
and business men in Vermont for repeal
or reduction of internal revenue taxes said he
wished TO urge the Finance Committee the
Importance of the subject of reducing il not
altogether repeating. this remnant of the I'M
pleasantness of twenty-five years ago. Mr..
Malone presented numerous petitions from
Virginia manufacturers Of and dealers in
tobacco, for the abolition Of the tobacco tax.
Messrs. Evarts, TeAer, Spooner, Pugh,
and Eustis were selected the Sena-
torial Committee to investigate the alleged
Texas outrages. The President sent in a mes
sage vetong the bill granting pension to
BENJAMIN Obekiah. The bill" he says "di-
reefs that the beneficiary named therein be
placed upon the pension roll subject To the
provisions and limitations of the pension laws.
In July, 1886, the person named in this bill
was placed upon the pension roll at
a rate determined upon by the Pension Bureau
pursuant TO the provisions and limitations
Of the pension laws, and IL Is entirely GER
tain that the special act now presented to
me would give the claimant no new rights
additional benefits" The President also vetoed
the bill for the relief of II X. Bedding, who was
n mail contractor i'm Minnesota in 1860. The
measure is vetoed becauss the President thinks
the evidence in the case gives rise TO n strong
presumption that the claim is entirely fictitious
Edward +. Mealey. of Maryland was nominated